As “Better Call Saul” fans will be well aware, Bob Odenkirk suffered a major heart attack while filming Season 6. Thankfully, he survived — and Rhea Seehorn played a part in it.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Seehorn recounted the experience. She, Patrick Fabian, and Odenkirk were in the middle of shooting a scene when Odenkirk decided to hop onto an exercise bike during a break. Suddenly, Odenkirk collapsed — and alarm bells went off for both of his co-stars. “We realized something was very wrong and we dove to catch him before he hit the concrete floor, and then realized it was very, very bad, and started yelling for help,” Seehorn told the outlet. The actor said the situation became fraught quickly due to their location. “In those airplane-size soundstages, everything was echoing and it was pretty frantic,” she remembered.
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Odenkirk, it’s worth pointing out, has very little recollection of the incident. However, in an episode of “The Howard Stern Show,” he shared that without Fabian and Seehorn screaming when they did, he probably wouldn’t have made it. “I would have been dead if somebody hadn’t immediately screamed and gotten someone there to give me CPR,” he acknowledged. He also gave Seehorn a shout-out for protecting his head from the fall — something he doubled down on months later in a tweet. “Rhea, thanks for holding my head off the concrete floor,” he wrote.
